The following is a plea to our citizens to rally on behalf of our nation’s future.
There are those who claim our government is too large and their answer is the privatization of everything. You may recall Bush/Cheney privatized the Iraq and Afghan wars by hiring Cheney’s company Halliburton to administer large segments of those wars. The result was tremendous cost overruns and extraordinary profit for Cheney and company.
There are those who claim government is too large and wish to privatize Social Security and Medicare. Social Security has been solvent for 75 continuous years. Why, then, would some wish to privatize that program? Well, needless to say, for profit, and untold restrictions to assure profit. The list goes on and on: privatize health care to satisfy the insurance companies, privatize roads, national parks and schools. All the transfer of wealth in this nation might continue to gravitate to the one percent.
We live in a democracy that has been the most effective governing force in recorded history. For 234 years our elected representatives forged compromise for the good of our nation. As a result of that compromise our nation became the envy of the world, the leader of every facet of human endeavor. For the last two years, the art of compromise has been abandoned. The Republican-controlled house has resisted every effort to emerge from the Bush/Cheney recession.
The words of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address resound in my ear: “We are again testing whether this nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”
The battlefield of this war is not Bull Run or Gettysburg. Our battlefield is the voting places across this nation where we must remove those who represent the forces that profit above allegiance to our nation. It was not the middle class that caused this recession. It was not the Social Security recipients who caused the recession. It was not the present government that caused the recession. It was the profit takers. To borrow a biblical phrase: “It was the money changers.”
We must therefore stand together for a government that seeks to uplift all boats to the common good. A government that will not allow suppression of voter rights, a government that would endeavor to rebuild our roads and bridges, our infrastructure and restore the middle class to allow American-made products, goods and services to once again prevail.
We who inherited the wealth and wonder of our beloved nation, we who now hold the responsibility of preserving our nation for generations to come, we the people of every race, creed and religion must pose to ourselves this question: “Was our government wrong these past 234 years or for the past two years?”
The answer is obvious. We must work together or we will perish together. We must stop the insanity of self before all else.
I am but one small voice in this endeavor. I implore you to join me, to return our nation to that which made all others yearn for our shores. Our present government is not to blame, it is the profit takers, the money changers, that tore our world asunder.
God bless those who truly serve our nation and God bless America now and evermore.
Clyde Mowery
Lucasville
Business, generally speaking, is not good or bad. They are in place to make a profit. Now we all like that profit when it comes to our retirement plan, our 401K, mutual funds or other stock based investments but many try to vilify these same companies for seeking to make that profit on behalf of you the investor. It makes no sense.
We all enjoy the products they make from our food to chemicals, plastics, the heating and air conditioning that we all used so much this past month and even the electronics we use to access this site. But again, you vilify them for making a profit. They cannot exist without making a profit and the byproduct of them doing business is jobs. These jobs provide a good stream of income for folks to support their families. The other route to supporting your family is government assistance. That revenue is provided through taxes of people who still work for a company that sells a product and unfortunately, in this country, so many folks have chosen the assistance path that now we must borrow 42 cents of every dollar and pay interest to those we borrow from simply because we have too many people dipping funds from the treasury and too few paying in to it. This is not sustainable and our ability to borrow will run out, assistance will end if we continue on this path.
Meanwhile, business will still be manufacturing products, the question is; where do you want them to do it? In a foreign country where all the tax revenue and jobs go to foreigners? Or here where we can reap the benefits of producing products? If it’s here, we can eventually stop borrowing money and paying interest. We can start funding our treasury with a positive cash flow. If we are to ever get there though, we have to vote for politicians who will lure business back with reductions in corporate tax rates and streamlined regulations. If we want jobs and prosperity, people have to stop vilifying business and understand it for what it is. It provides a needed product for a profit; the host country gets jobs and tax revenue as a byproduct. The choice is ours, we can have prosperity or we can allow other countries to have it while grow poor.
Individual free enterprise has so many barriers to compete on even terms.
Manhy of us can remember a time whe there were so many more small enterprises (companys). Encouraging that would be in all our interests.. as individuals.
Anyone who gives economics a little thought can easily understand that business will choose to operate where it can make the most profit. They are not in business to provide jobs or to finance handouts; those are byproducts of making a profit. They also cannot compete with another business whose operating expenses are significantly lower due to taxes, regulation and labor costs. Liberals would have you believe that they can tax, regulate and charge all they want for labor and if a business wants to move away because of it, they can levy a fine against them. Well, they have pursued this path for decades and we have watched manufacturing leave this nation at a steady pace. With modern manufacturing requiring higher technology and less physical labor, the cost of labor is less significant while taxes and regulation have become major factors in the decision of where to manufacture products. Until we decide to lower corporate tax rates (ours is the highest in the world at 39.6%), streamline regulation and hire employees without the added cost of union overhead we are just going to have to sit here and watch Asian countries grow wealthy while we are unemployed.
Many other liberal positions don’t make sense either but each time you vote a democrat into office, you further their outlandish agenda.
Liberals are for killing unborn babies but against the death penalty for convicted murderers and rapists.
Liberals are famous for protecting the rights of criminals yet they are against the second amendment and the ability of a law abiding citizen to protect themselves.
Liberals say they don’t discriminate against minorities, yet they support things like affirmative action which basically says that minorities are incapable of competing with others so the government has to help them along. This is extremely insulting to any hard working individual who happens to fall into a minority classification.
Liberals have berated any type of energy that makes a profit while embrace every form of energy that is incapable of supplying our needs. An example is this administration converting navy ships over to a fuel that cost seven times their current fuel. We are currently borrowing 42 cents of every dollar we spend and we are switching to a fuel that costs seven times more??? That’s insanity.
Liberals support illegal immigration. This administration has done everything in its power to invite more illegals into the country. They even sued states to make them stop enforcing immigration law.
Liberals are for voter fraud, they even sued Florida to stop them from purging illegals from the voter registration rolls.
This list can go on and on. Just the way this administration measures success should tell you something. Conservatives have always measured success by how many folks had jobs and could support their families. This administration measures success by how many people are on food stamps.
No candidate is going to represent everyone’s idea of perfection but it’s a pretty simple conclusion that if you hope to ever do better than you are now, if you want prosperity and the pride of supporting yourself and your family through honest labor versus having to live on only what the government is willing to provide, you need to vote for the most conservative candidate on the ballot….. Every time!
Republican.. Democrat.. both produce the same results.
FORGET the moral and emotion issues. What matters in our secular nation are things that affect our ability to earn an income with little or no tax on personal income. The IRS wastes so much of it that abolishing the IRS and repalcing with federal tax on consumtion would be a far far better and level playing field for all Americans.
Red.. Blue.. Republican or Democrat .. those ideals are to keep us divided over emotional matters and make it harder for us as INDIVIDUALS to keep the Industrial-Military complex in check.
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Some things to consider to encompass more reality about The Money Changers:
The Money Changers have always been a force that can rally prosperity or divide us through adversity. Both to first reap a profit for the Money Changers.
The Money Changers turned our nation into a two-headed single party system. One head is blue and the other red. Superficial differences keep the masses at odds bickering over emotional matters while our earned wealth is taxed and robbed from us.
The Money Changers are speculators; Andrew Jackson proclaimed they speculate with the bread-stuffs of the country. Abraham Lincoln knew he had an adversary on the war front and The Money Changers at his back. The Money Changers devalue an earned-saved Dollar. A Dollar that has devalued by ninety six percent since the inception of the so-called Federal Reserve System and the IRS (not much federal about it, both really serve selected private interests). Both which were created by an act that many of us are now awakening to realize mostly serves certain groups and some challenge as criminal.
The Money Changers are also enablers for the country becoming a grossly over-extended entitlement nation: Corporate, Municipal, Individual, and groups of individuals, or corporations, who mostly look out for their group and not a nation as true individuals; and the world at large.
Compounded on top that outdated economic models centered around a Flat Earth Policy; most of us shunning the reality that global resources now have limits.
Open Google Earth or Google Maps. Spend time to witness how our Earth's surface has become overly dominated and threatened by human activity. Take a peek on the land masses all around the planet. Vast land tracts nothing but rectangles and circles of agriculture to feed massive city's that in turn consume more resources which in turn consume more land to produce more of the same. The epitome of a throw away anti-recycling careless society are the ship-loads of throw away toys that go into a hamburger meal just to coerce children to eat food that we are now finding contributes to the overall health of the population which further burdens us seeking liberty and happiness.
Enterprise is the nature of humans. Certain group behavior suppresses the pursuit of liberty and happiness as each of us must earn our way thru life and discouraging the concept of blind un-earned entitlement.
Groups of corporations or groups of individuals looking out for their own group have repeatedly demonstrated how they suppress free standing enterprise which is the best mechanism for distribution of wealth; for ones who make effort to earn it and discourage the use entitlement not connected to truly earning it.
This is not a Flat Earth. The low hanging fruit has been picked yet we continue to rapidly expand the numbers of everything.
The Money Changers must be brought in to check. Start by DEMANDING a deep audit of the Federal Reserve System and work towards eliminating the IRS. They go hand in hand as it was devised that way. A majority chunk of what the IRS takes in goes to pay for its own operating expense; a grossly bloated bureaucracy.
More consumption and excise tax instead of taxing more of what individuals earn as income. That does two things: Each of us will have more respect for what we consume and forces the Money Changers towards the corner. Perhaps then we will find more peace (not war) on the planet. Perhaps too a dollar earned can be a dollar saved for the future when it is needed.
Audit The Fed !!! Move towards eliminating the IRS !!! Both of which will greatly reduce the congressional feeding frenzy and help bring that over zealous group into check too.
Gary Daniels
Some things to consider to encompass more reality:
The Money Changers have always been a force that can rally prosperity or divide us through adversity. Both to first reap a profit for the Money Changers.
The Money Changers turned our nation into a two-headed single party system. One head is blue and the other red. Superficial differences keep the masses at odds bickering over emotional matters while our earned wealth is taxed and robbed from us.
The Money Changers are speculators; Andrew Jackson proclaimed they speculate with the bread-stuffs of the country. Abraham Lincoln knew he had an adversary on the war front and The Money Changers at his back. The Money Changers devalue an earned-saved Dollar. A Dollar that has devalued by ninety six percent since the inception of the so-called Federal Reserve System and the IRS (not much federal about it, both really serve selected private interests). Both which were created by an act that many of us are now awakening to realize mostly serves certain groups and some challenge as criminal.
The Money Changers are also enablers for the country becoming a grossly over-extended entitlement nation: Corporate, Municipal, Individual, and groups of individuals, or corporations, who mostly look out for their group and not a nation as true individuals; and the world at large.
Compounded on top that outdated economic models centered around a Flat Earth Policy; most of us shunning the reality that global resources now have limits.
Open Google Earth or Google Maps. Spend time to witness how our Earth's surface has become overly dominated and threatened by human activity. Take a peek on the land masses all around the planet. Vast land tracts nothing but rectangles and circles of agriculture to feed massive city's that in turn consume more resources which in turn consume more land to produce more of the same. The epitome of a throw away anti-recycling careless society are the ship-loads of throw away toys that go into a hamburger meal just to coerce children to eat food that we are now finding contributes to the overall health of the population which further burdens us seeking liberty and happiness.
Enterprise is the nature of humans. Certain group behavior suppresses the pursuit of liberty and happiness as each of us must earn our way thru life and discouraging the concept of blind un-earned entitlement.
Groups of corporations or groups of individuals looking out for their own group have repeatedly demonstrated how they suppress free standing enterprise which is the best mechanism for distribution of wealth; for ones who make effort to earn it and discourage the use entitlement not connected to truly earning it.
This is not a Flat Earth. The low hanging fruit has been picked yet we continue to rapidly expand the numbers of everything.
The Money Changers must be brought in to check. Start by DEMANDING a deep audit of the Federal Reserve System and work towards eliminating the IRS. They go hand in hand as it was devised that way. A majority chunk of what the IRS takes in goes to pay for its own operating expense; a grossly bloated bureaucracy.
More consumption and excise tax instead of taxing more of what individuals earn as income. That does two things: Each of us will have more respect for what we consume and forces the Money Changers towards the corner. Perhaps then we will find more peace (not war) on the planet. Perhaps too a dollar earned can be a dollar saved for the future when it is needed.
Audit The Fed !!! Move towards eliminating the IRS !!! Both of which will greatly reduce the congressional feeding frenzy and help bring that over zealous group into check too.
Gary Daniels
This is a powerful group for the Vets........
knock them down like you did the Viet Nam Vets....
http://iava.org/
EDITING IS SO POWERFUL AS IS BEING THE ONLY NEWSPAPER IN TOWN TO BRING OUT THE TRUTH.
I think you have me confused with someone else.
the last posting was for PDT's for I posted a lengthy response to you that was all good, not critical thinking in that one. I began it with thanking you for your service to our country and ended the posting that way, too.
That was not posted by the editors. And the reference on gag order, is to them since they are selective to what they allow or not. Sorry for the confusion. They fail to post our posts on come articles and it happens so much we have to copy it and circulate it by email and or on TOPIX, who are not corrupt, making good bad.
The PDT's thinks critical thinking and holding our leaders accountable is "negativity." Wonder why this county is in the shape it's in, with censured media, etc. for the status quo, and the corrupt, who makes good bad.
Thank you for your service.
Concerning the 2 wars. The war in Afganistan was needed. That's where they train Alquida. That's where Osama Bin Laden was at the time. I served in that war and I know much about it. The war in Iraqi was fought wrong and I brought many of our men home in caskets and on stretchers. I wish that war had been fought better.
Now the Dems controlled the congress (House and Senate) for the last half of Bushes second term and half of Obama's first term. It was until the last mid term election that the power shifted. Neither side has done what they said and Jobs are disappearing at an alarming rate and both parties are to blame.
YoJoe your condescending and to presumptutous. you know what they say about assumptions, they are the mother of all screw ups.
P.S. Obama was a senator during the second half of Bushes second term and he voted for a large spending bill. He inherited a mess of his own making.
Capitalism has raised the standard of living for all people not just the wealthy.
George W Bush and Obama have similar economic policies so one could not be good while the other is bad, but I think Obama's has been worse. The national debt has increased more since he took office than the 8 years of Bush, and Bush was not good for the economy but Obama is worse.
Both sides claim to be for the middle class and manipulate the tax code to prove it. They are just making the tax code more complicated and manipulating the people to get votes, it has went on since the income tax was added to the constitution in 1913 (16th amendment). The democrats are much better at that manipulation though and claim the republicans are for the wealthy. If that were the case why are the wealthiest people in America democrats, such as George Soros, Warren Buffett and almost anyone from Hollywood?
You give that olde, passe' so yesterday opinion of just the retreaded "trickle down theory" and it did not work then and will not work now.
Look at how the middle class got formed and grew and developed after the WW II, and Maybe WWI?
Then another one of your solutions are a KISS tax code like that creates jobs.
All you say is Bush and Obama are bad but Obama is worst. Your outlook on life? The empty part of the glass?
Bush gave us the basic defining deficit, and if you know math and that interest rule, you will know that the DEFICIT accelerates by percentages, etc.
Back around Reagan's time, the 1% paid like 90% tax and now all they pay is about 35%. And if they would only pay only 39%, the DEFICIT would start to be wiped out, and the poor and middle class would not have to pay $2,000 annually to cover for the 1%. Fatcats...........
You have all opinions and feelings, not fact. You are the one with the "know it all" postings telling the rest of us how it is, but, no fact (s).
Therefore, why should anyone do what you say we should? Why should we believe you when it's our country at stake. They say now that if congress does not start acting we will have a second recessionary dip in January, 2013.
Tax cuts have not growed the economy in 10 years, they are in there now, they are not working now, so why will they work in the future? Is that all you got?
Why don't you deal with contraception and the Roman Catholic Bishops, you may have a better chance and fair better in your feelings and opinions??
You are back after your last failed wanting posting. You get the GOP talking points all mixed up, check your list again, me thinks the 14 Trillion is the Total Deficit (of which Geo W. owns a lot of it and that is what they do when they know when they are going to lose the Whitehouse), but we are not the one's posting like you who knows it all......
Now lets give you a list to check out before you run you fingers wild on your keyboard again and embarrass yourself some more.
Do your research, you are allowed your own opinion, but not your own facts.
Compare and contrast Geo W. and President Obama for these few things.
1. 2 wars off budget, Obama had to put them back into the budget.
2. reduced taxes for the 1% twice, on the backs of the middle class and the poor who have to spring for that, and their children. Are you in the 1%, Doubt it, cause you are here but you still talk for them?
3. Geo W's jobs lost vis a vis Obama's jobs lost,and
4. jobs gained............
5. Here's some bonus ones, Illegal's deported, millions put on the health care coverage, oh our auto industry save from vanishing from our ecomony, that's just a few.
Now don't pick and chose what you think the weaker one's are, if you do, we will know your are a councilman or one of the non-elected or in the NGO's in Ptown.
There's many more GOP losing items, we just don't carry around a talking points list but we know who the winner should be, THE PEOPLE and Obama will be the only one to make them winners, again.
Let's not even talk about the alternative, Romney the Buffoon............and he's the best the GOP has got...............that's all they got, after McCain, bless his heart and thank him for his service.
Show us some facts like the PDT's does, always. '